 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 pages
...which though it hath large flourishes, yet it is but a letter? It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy 6 is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity: for...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. But yet notwithstanding it is a thing not hastily to be condemned, to clothe and adorn the obscurity... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 154 pages
...emblem or portraiture of this vanity : for words are but the images of matter; and, except they have the life of reason and invention, to fall in love with...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture." In another passage, he puts the matter as follows : " Surely, like as many substances in Nature which... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1881 - 304 pages
...emblem or portraiture of this vanity : for words are but the images of matter; and, except they have the life of reason and invention, to fall in love with...them is all one as to. fall in love with a picture." In another passage, he puts the matter as follows : " Surely, like as many substances in Nature which... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 pages
...though it hath large flourishes, yet it is but a letter ? It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy 3 is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity ; for...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. Cambridge, and Ascham, 1 with their lectures and writings, almost deify Cicero and Demosthenes, and... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1884 - 134 pages
...or portraiture of this vanity : for words are but the images of matter ; and, except they have the life of reason and invention, to fall in love with...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture." In another passage, he puts the matter as follows : " Surely, like as many substances in Nature which... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - 436 pages
...represented an example of late times, yet it hath been and will be secundum majus et minus in all time. And how is it possible but this should have an operation...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. 4. But yet notwithstanding it is a thing not hastily to be condemned, to clothe and adorn the obscurity... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1885 - 562 pages
...example of late times, yet it hath been and will be, secundum et tnajus et minus, in all time. ... It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture." * Another reason for Bacon's indifference to English style was that he wrote for posterity and disbelieved... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - 438 pages
...words are but the images of matter ; and sexcept they have life of reason and invention, to fall in i love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. 4. But yet notwithstanding it is a thing not hastily to be condemned, to clothe and adorn the obscurity... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1886 - 378 pages
...to discredit learning, even with vulgar capacities, when they see learned men's works like the tirst letter of a patent or limned book, which, though it...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture." * The Novum Organum, part of a vast, unfinished work called the Instauratio Jfayna, was published in... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1886 - 376 pages
...letter of a patent or limned book, which, though it hath large flourishes, yet it is but a letter 1 It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture." * The Novum Organum, part of a vast, unfinished work called the Instauratio Magna, was published in... | |
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Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity : for words are but the images of matter ; and except they have life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. 
